Canute

See also: canute

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Canut, from Anglo-Norman *Canut, Kenut (compare Medieval Latin Canūtus), from Old Norse Knútr, possibly originally a byname meaning "knot".[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kəˈn(j)uːt/

Proper noun

Canute

(historical) A male given name from the Germanic languages used in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth century.
Canute the Great, king of England, Denmark and Norway.
A town in Oklahoma.

Derived terms

Translations

Male given name

Danish: Knud
Dutch: Knoet
Faroese: Knútur
Finnish: Nuutti (fi)
German: Knut (de) m
Greenlandic: Kunuuti
Icelandic: Knútur (is)
Latin: Canutus
Lithuanian: Knutas
Middle English: Canut
Norwegian: Knut (no)
Old Norse: Knútr
Polish: Kanut
Portuguese: Canuto
Russian: Кнуд m (Knud)
Spanish: Canuto
Swedish: Knut (sv)

References

Porck, Thijs, Mann, Jodie (2014) “How Cnut became Canute (and how Harthacnut became Airdeconut)”, in NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, volume 67, number 2, →DOI, pages 237–243.

Anagrams

Ceutan, uncate

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